Monday, May 30, 2016

The End of an Era, RT Book Reviews Magazine Goes Digital

The End of an Era

On Friday I received
not only mine, but the very last print edition of RT Reviews Magazine. I’ve had
the privilege to review for them since 2011.
I have always reviewed single titles and will continue to for the digital
edition but after a few months I took on reviewing the Harlequin Presents
series and the next year I took the Special Edition series too and I kept them
both until it just got too much and I had to give up the Presents novels last
year. Not only will the magazine now be only available in digital format but
they’ve also decided to eliminate all the Harlequin series reviews.

Many of the authors I
reviewed in the magazine became much more than a name on the title page, some
are on-line and a few have become personal friends. I hated that I was under
strict orders not to say anything but its now out in the open and everyone
knows the score and I’m happy to say that even though RT has decided to delete
them from the digital magazine The Reading Frenzy will each month feature at
least the entire Special Edition series and hopefully I’ll be able to feature two
series each month.

On July 19th,
which is when the August SE series releases The Reading Frenzy will showcase
the entire series and review Her Maverick M.D. by Teresa Southwick.

The Harlequin series line remains crazy successful because they appeal to such a wide audience range.
They’re easy to read are written for every type of romance fan and perfect for
commuters, weekend readers and especially those for whom an HEA is a MUST.

So enjoy the new
monthly feature and be sure to stop by and support all the Harlequin series and
the authors who write with such passion and heart. And like I always say
Harlequin Makes the World go Round so Here Here to HQN!!!!

17 comments:

Oh wow, big news Debbie. My eye caught your heading in my blog feed! As you know I only get the digital magazine anyway because of location on this lovely planet. But still I can mourn the passing of the print edition, which I would have loved if living in USA. Sounds like other changes along with it. I love a HEA although I haven't read a series book for a long time, as so much to read. Yay for blogs to present information. And yay for Harlequin.

Print media is a dying breed. I know that newspapers have been fighting it for years. My FIL was in the newspaper business and he had a hard time with digital. He was a small time local paper. People would go to the larger papers for stories. He's now retired, so I don't know what the paper is up to now. I'm sure magazines are having a hard time too. I've never been much of a magazine reader. I hope the digital thing works out well for RT.

Actually Anna they did a study and even though digitalized books are on the rise so are books in print, the only problem is that there are many books that are only available digitally now and most big publishing houses have digital only imprints too.

Hopefully that'll continue to be true, Debbie. I know a number of series I read have suddenly gone from print to e-only this past year and sadly our bookstore here has less and less actual books in it :/

As for the changes at RT,I'm very sad. But how great to have you putting some focus on series (and Special Edition, woot!) here at the Reading Frenzy. I'll be here on the 19th, Deb, and sending readers your way....

As for the changes at RT,I'm very sad. But how great to have you putting some focus on series (and Special Edition, woot!) here at the Reading Frenzy. I'll be here on the 19th, Deb, and sending readers your way....

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